The Writings Of James Barry And The Genre Of History Painting, 1775?809

Examining the literary career of the eighteenth-century Irish painter James Barry, 1741-1806 through an interdisciplinary methodology, The Writings of James Barry and the Genre of History Painting, 1775-1809 is the first full-length study of the artist's writings. Liam Lenihan critically assesses the artist's own aesthetic philosophy about painting and printmaking, and reveals the extent to which Barry wrestles with the significant stylistic transformations of the pre-eminent artistic genre of his age: history painting. Lenihan's book delves into the connections between Barry's writings and art, and the cultural and political issues that dominated the public sphere in London during the American and French Revolutions.

• • Author: Dr Liam Lenihan
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Jan 10, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 218 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 140946752X
• • ISBN-13: 9781409467526